The Lenovo’s notebooks seem expensive for new purchases. Newer Sandy Bridge processors are more cost effective.

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Users generally have good review about the notebook

The IdeaPad Z560 notebook is on sale at lenovo’s own shopping website. The base model of lenovo i.e Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 – 09143AU which comes with core i3-380M comes for $699.00 at the time of writing the review and the 091446U powered by the Core i5-480M is priced at $849.

If you plan to purchase it at Lenovo, it will ask you to add options in successive screens. A 2 year basic home warranty is available for $49.00 which may be worth taking if you plan to use the notebook heavily.

The PC personalization option may be done away with as it does not seem to add value. It will also ask you to add several software as option, most of which can be bypassed.

The buying experience is really bad at Lenovo website. It may actually turn away many potential buyers as it walks you through 20 or so screens asking you to add options, most of it you is never neededed.

All four models of Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 comes with 15.6” high definition LED backlit display, which offers resolution of 1398*768p in 16:9 format.

All four models comprise of 6 cell li-ion battery and supported byBluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR.

These models come with DVD burner.

The sleek and stylish all new Ideapad Z560 comes with contemporary chicklet style keyboard. It also have separate numeric keypad. The whole components are enclosed within cover having metallic outlook.

Other significant features it includes

User can enjoy Dolby stereo surround sound

The IdeaPad Z560 comprises of OneKey Theatre feature which allows you toggle between movie to web cruise mode.

For data recovery it comes with OneKey Rescue 7.0

It offers face recognition feature with Veriface software.

If you are looking for a budget friendly Laptop or notebook, Lenovo Z560 integrated with enough features which can perform general computing seamlessly. However if you need laptop for gaming purpose then the lenovo Ideapad Z560- 09143BU comes withNVIDIA GeForce 310M will be recommended. Ironically, the models don’t have wifi support only Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 – 09143BUhas. This is very uncommon now a days. The lenovo IdeaPad Z560 has one year warranty.

@Bala
Hi Bala
I am planning to purchase this laptop. Could you tell me how is the performance, build quality etc. And what’s with the review here saying not all the models have WiFi. Does your have wifi or you had to purchase a wireless csrd. Let me know. Thanks in advance buddy
Regards,
Purnachandra

i bought this about a month ago, and i’m very happy with it. it’s design is way better than most other lenovos i’ve seen (they all look like a box, this one is actually pleasant to look at) it also works very well. i got one with the intel core i5 processor- works great. also, i was worried the touchpad might be uncomfortable- but it works great.

I bought laptop for my wife and I. I ended up with a great deal at $550USD with free shipping. I also used a promo code FUNFACTOR to get a bigger discount. My only concern was that it only comes with 3GB memory while all other laptops in this price range come with 4 GB of memory. I went with this laptop because of awesome reviews and great help from customer service.

Has anyone purchased 09143AU model? does it come with wireless card.I do not understand the review here saying not every model comes with wi-fi support.that kind of sounds odd for me..no wi-fi in a laptop these days?can anyone confirm if this model has wireless? am planning to buy this laptop this weekend…thank you

i am an engg student and i bought this laptop a few days back and fell in love with all its specifications..battery backup is good…look is good…softwares that are not supported by other high cost laptop are well supported by this one…thanks lenovo:)

I bought z560 laptop one month back. I have removed the partitions as c drive was 421 GB. While installing OS again I was not able to enter the BIOS. After discussing the issue with support, they advised me to submit laptop to service center. Service center guys says there is some problem with hard disk after 4 days. Now since 3 weeks they are not able to manage hard disk. So it looks very worst service. Sent mails to lenovo support but they are also not responding.

hey bro , i baught this laptop just a month ago and frankly speaking it is awesome. i took an i5 and 1 gb 350m nvidia..it isimply is awesome.. and also unlike athoer lappy where keypad becomes a problem this laptop got separate keys so simply the keys are too good..

also it is playing latest games such as dead space and pes 2010 easily at high def…

all to all a good one …. and hey if u wanna see movies and all u better see them on vlc cuz generally sound is a bit low ( almost all lappys same)..

Hi thinking of buying z560 can i install windows 7 ultimate on it, even though it comes pre installed with windows 7 home premium? And if so does it affect the drivers on the laptop, or will they all work and run smoothly? Need an answer soon please!

i became a fan on d first day.
u cannot install win xp because no i-series processor supports it. only win 7(dis goes for other laptop brands as well).

if nebody wants to buy dis laptop then go 4 d specs i mentioned.
dis model has wi-fi and many more features which r exclusive to lenovo laptops. and yes its cheaper dan other lappy with these specs.
it cost me 47000 ( after a lot of negotiation)
goodluck

Got Lenovo Z560 ideaPad this weekend. It has Intel i5-480m processor(2.6GHz, Hyperthreading, 3MB L3 Cache, TurboBoost), 4GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Intel HD Graphics, Broadcomm Wifi, Realtek Ethernet adapter, Blutooth 2.1, 1.3 Webcam , 3 USB ports(1 eSata), 1 HDMI Port, 1 Express card slot, 5-1 Card Reader, DVD RW, WLED 15.6″ Screen. Free Dos. Installed Windows 7.
Ran Windows Experience Index Program and got 4.5 rating which was only due to Intel graphics. Every other component viz. processors, RAM etc. had rating above 5.5. Laptop looks rugged. I only dislike the outer glossy finish which easily gets exposed to smears. Look wise its a beauty with a silver line running between the black enclosures of the laptop. Keypad is a luxury while you type. All this days I was missing the numeric pad on my previous laptops but now that also is there and I feel happy when I have to open up the calculator and do some calculations.
Coming to multimedia, I watched ‘Inception’ on it and the experience was awesome with Dolby sound which was crisp and clear. For testing music ran songs from ‘Roza’ and got the ultimate feel of sound.
Now for work, downloaded and installed JDK, Android SDK and it was fast to install them. Ran my application on Android emulator and it came up smoothly. My Compaq F700 was crying when I ran the android emulator and got dead last week :(. Turned on some Windows features like IIS, ASP, ASP.Net and they were up and running in a minute.

Caveat emptor – or LET THE BUYER BEWARE!
If you plan to purchase this laptop from Lenovo directly please be aware that they will not guarantee price. I purchased this laptop on a Thursday, the following Monday the exact same model was listed on their website for $200 less. Of course I called Customer Service (In India!) and asked for the discounted price – I had not received my order yet – and was told they do not give credit for price adjustments. I was also told if I cancelled my order I was going to be charged a 15% restocking fee because (as they told me) my order had already been shipped. Well it is now two weeks later and it still has not arrived. so is it a good laptop – right now I can’t answer that question, but I do wonder how supportive their tech support will be if their Customer Service is so wanting! My advice – watch the website for awhile to get their best price.

I had dual operating system XP & Win 7 on my computer, while using Internet (XP System) I got Memory Dump Error system restarted automatically, I refer Internnet for the same problem, I got the information that this was happened do to wrong BIOS and increasing capacity of virtual memory. So I increase the virtual memory and tried to install BIOS for XP (power adapter was properly inserted) during that installation suddenly I got blue screen error and system restarted automatically. I dont know what was happened to my system and both the operating system XP & Win 7 are not running and system will automatically get restart by Blue screen error.

bought z560 in March. could not get it to enter sleep mode after accessing web content. returned for warranty service, still has the same problem. very dissatisfied with Lenovo support. I think this is a lemon. awaiting a response to my escalation to get my money back. lot of money for poor performance